UGA History Exemption Test Questions and Answers
(2022/2023) (Verified Answers)
1.He was a spanish explorer who marched across Mexico and conquered the Aztecs✔✔✔ Hernan Cortes
2.He explored deep in USA, first to discover and cross the Mississippi River and claim it for Spain ✔✔✔ Hernando de Soto
3.This man was a member of the English Parliament who founded the colony of Georgia.✔✔✔ James Edward Oglethorpe
4.Who was Georgia's 3rd and final royal governor who fled the colony after the start of the American Revolution? ✔✔✔ James Wright
5.In what year did the 13th amendment abolish slavery and involuntary servitude?✔✔✔ 1864
6.Who settled land in New York along the Hudson River?✔✔✔ The Dutch .This man was an African American educator born into slavery who called for black progress through education.✔✔✔ Booker T Washington
8.Act of Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States, and granted it the
legal authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes, and Federal Reserve Bank Notes as legal tender. ✔✔✔ Federal Reserve Act
9.In what year was the Federal Reserve Act ratified? ✔✔✔ 1913
10.What machine automated cotton processing and INCREASED the
need for slaves?✔✔✔ Cotton Gin
11.This man was a quaker who founded Pennsylvania. He wanted to unite
all of the UA colonies and pushed for democracy and religious
freedom.✔✔✔ William Penn
12.What was Georgia's fourth capital and seat of the state government during the Civil War (1861 - 1865)?✔✔✔ Milledgeville .In 1832 SC argued that the federal tariffs were unconstitutional and President Jackson sent Troops to force SC to pay tariffs.✔✔✔ Nullification Crisis
14.In 1925 a substitute teacher was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act✔✔✔ Scopes Trial
15.The period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union✔✔✔ Reconstruction Era
16.In what years did the Reconstruction Era occur?✔✔✔ 1865-1877
17.A series of economic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1936. They involved presidential executive orders or laws passed by Congress during the first term of President Franklin D.
Roosevelt.✔✔✔ The New Deal
18.Between what years was The New Deal enacted? ✔✔✔ 1933-1936
19.An African American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman.
For- mer Slave who was the leader of the abolitionist movement and
supported women's suffrage.✔✔✔ Frederick Douglass
20.What organization unsuccessfully campaigned for an equal
rights amendment to the constitution? ✔✔✔ National Organization
of Women
21.Who was the 40th President of the United States who worked to lift
govt regulations, reduce taxes, and reduce domestic spending by
curtailing social welfare. Launched the largest peacetime military buildup
in American history.✔✔✔ Ronald Reagan
22.In what years did prohibition take place?✔✔✔ 1920-1933
23.A national ban on the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol.-
✔✔✔ American Prohibition
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